Railway car defect card holder

ABSTRACT

A DEFFECT CARD HOLDER FOR APPLICATION TO A RAILWAY CAR COMPRISING A HOLLOW BODY OF PLASTIC MATERIAL AND HAVING A SUBSTANTIALLY FLAT WALL, THERE BEING A MOUNTING PLATE EMBEDDED IN AND SECURED TO BE BODY FLAT WALL AND PROJECTING FAR ENOUGH BEYOND IT TO LIE FLAT AGAINST THE SURFACE OF A CAR WALL FOR WELDING THE PLATE TO THE CAR WALL WITHOUT INJURIOUSLY HEATING THE PLASTIC BODY.

9, 1971 J. J. HENNESSY, JR 3,618,239

RAILWAY CAR DEFECT CARD HOLDER Filed Nov. 24, 1969 FIG.4

United States Patent Office 3,618,239 RAILWAY CAR DEFECT CARD HOLDER James J. Hennessy, Jr., Chambersburg, Pa., assignor to Hennessy Products, Incorporated, Chambersburg, Pa. Filed Nov. 24, 1969, Ser. No. 879,083 Int. Cl. G091? 3/18 US. CI. 40-19 4 Claims ABSTRACT OF THE DISCLOSURE A defect card holder for application to a railway car comprising a hollow body of plastic material and having a substantially flat wall, there being a mounting plate embedded in and secured to the body flat wall and projecting far enough beyond it to lie flat against the surface of a car wall for welding the plate to the car wall without injuriously heating the plastic body.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION It has long been general practice to attach a notice to a railway car, indicating a defect requiring attention when the car is shopped for repairs. Sometimes the notice has been written on a card which is tacked to the car side where it may be exposed to the weather and is readily disfigured or torn ofl. It is now customary to mount a receptacle on the car in which the defect card may be placed. Usually the receptacle is of transparent plastic material so that the presence of the card is readily apparent. Such a receptacle is not adapted to be secured to the car adequately by bolts or rivets and is easily detached by accident or removed by theft. The defect card holder of Pat. 3,156,055 combines a plastic receptacle with a metal mounting plate which is riveted or welded to the car and has metal ears which are inserted through grommets in the plastic and bent over. These ears are readily rebent and the receptacle removed.

The present invention utilizes a receptacle of nylon material which has a relatively high melting point, and is united with a mounting plate which is embedded in a wall of the receptacle body, there being bosses integral with the receptacle body and extending through perforations in the mounting plate. The plate projects far enough beyond the body to which it is attached to avoid melting the receptacle material during welding to the car wall.

The object of the invention is to secure the receptacle flat against the wall without using attaching bolts, screws, rivets, grommets or other fastening means which would permit the receptacle to be separated from the mounting plate and removed from the car.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is an elevation of a tubular holder for defect cards mounted upon a car side wall.

FIGS. 2, 3 and 4 are transverse sections on lines 2-2, 3-3 and 4-4 respectively of FIG. 1.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENT The receptacle body 1 is tubular in cross section with one relatively thick flat wall 3. A double wall 4 pro ects 3,618,239 Patented Nov. 9, 1971 substantially beyond the tubular body. A mounting plate 5 is embedded in the body double wall extension 4 and is adapted to be welded along its upper edge to a car side 7 as indicated at W. The mounting plate 5 has a series of apertures 9. Bosses 11 integral with body double wall 4 project through apertures 9 in mounting plate 5 and maintain their assembly. A cap 13 has a hinge butt 15 projecting radially from the cap and pivoted by a rivet 17 to a portion 4a of wall 4.

The device is mounted upon a side of a car with its capped end above the level of the closed end which has a drainage opening 19 to prevent water accumulating in the holder.

Holes 21 extend through the mounting plate and body double wall 4 and adapt the device for ready mounting on the car wall by rivets or bolts but usually such mounting elements would not be necessary.

The plastic receptacle and mounting plate comprise a unit readily produced and securely applied to the car wall, preferably by welding, with assurance that it is not likely to be tampered with by vandals.

What is claimed is:

1. A railway car defect card holder comprising an elongated tubular body having one flat side and a flat flange coplanar therewith and extending lengthwise and alongside of the body, said body and flange being of plastic material and integral with each other, and a relatively thin flat mounting plate of metal embedded in said flange and extending therefrom transversely of the length of the body in the general plane of said flange for a substantial distance beyond the outer edge of the flange.

2. A card holder as described in claim 1 in which the embedded portion of the thin flat plate has apertures therethrough filled with integral extrusions of the plastic material of the flange and terminating flush with the exterior of the flange and plate.

3. A railway car defect card holder as described in claim 1 in which the body flat flange comprises spaced wide layers of the plastic material, and the mounting plate is positioned in part between said layers and extends throughout a substantial portion of the length of the body and the part of the plate projecting from said flange is weldable to a car wall at points spaced substantially from the plastic material.

4. A railway car defect card holder as described in claim 3 in which the plate has a series of spaced apart apertures in the part between the layers of the flange, and there are lugs of the plastic material flange integral with and connecting said layers and filling said apertures and having their ends flush with the outer faces of the flange.

References Cited UNITED STATES PATENTS 2,127,163 8/1938 Davis 40-10 D 2,176,698 10/1939 Albrecht 40-10 D 2,637,922 5/1953 Dryden 40-21 X 3,156,055 11/1964 Hennessy 40-19 ROBERT W. MICHELL, Primary Examiner W. J. CONTRERAS, Assistant Examiner 

